Podcast host Joshua Haymes voices range of extreme views and says liberalism a greater threat to US than neo-Nazism
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has repeatedly endorsed the Reformation Red Pill podcast, and has appeared on four episodes. But the former pastor who hosts the show, and who attends Hegseth’s theocratic church, has voiced a range of extreme positions in recent months on issues including Ice raids, capital punishment, the racist “great replacement” theory, adultery and neo-Nazism.
The revelations come on top of recent media reports focused on Hegseth also boosting a video of Douglas Wilson and other Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC) pastors arguing that women should lose the vote in the United States. They also follow previous revelations about Hegseth’s links to or apparent sympathies for Christian nationalist positions.
Online he has claimed that liberalism is a greater threat to the US than neo-Nazism, and that the Bible is “pro-Ice raids”. On X, he has also advocated for capital punishment for adultery and abortion, and appeared to call for the drowning of LGBTQ+ Pride marchers.
So by the transitive property of conservative accusations to conservative confessions, we can safely assume that this guy is a violent, NAZI adulterer who has paid for multiple abortions and also likes sucking the occasional immigrant cock.
It’s weird, because Taco is a well-known adulterer. Someone should ask this guy if Taco should be the first one executed?
Probably raped a few people too
Leviticus 19:33-34
When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God
Exodus 22:21
Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
Deuteronomy 4:2
Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.
Seems pretty straightforward to me.
before i whip this out on the family, i know the first thing they’ll ask, “is that the old testament?”
I love how they pull that nonsense, when it’s convenient. But then want the “ten commandments” put up on public land, etc…derrrrrrrp.
It’s almost as if they don’t have any actual beliefs and the rest of you should stop treating them like they do.
I enjoy asking people to name all ten commandments whenever they bring that shit up - they can never do it. “Uhhhhhh … do not cover thy ass?”
I’d respond that the parable of the Good Samaritan is specifically showing a “foreigner” (eh, nuance is hard) as the only person who helped the injured man, but that requires critical thinking and some historical context, so basically useless…
the only person who helped the injured man
They took er jobs!
Matthew 5:17-20
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus himself literally says follow the law (of Moses, OT shit) until heaven and earth fucking die, and anyone that doesn’t follow it won’t see heaven.
thanks for this! I will definitely be sure to keep that in the utility belt!
Check out Deconstruction zone and DZDebates on YouTube. Guy was a Christian for 20 years, went to seminary, learned greek and biblical Hebrew so he could read the Bible in the original languages, and through his study became an atheist. He is the least “debate-lord” atheist I’ve seen and has genuinely engaging conversations with people when they’re polite. When they’re belligerent though he roasts them with Bible verses.
beautiful, thank you!
I always remember the “jot and tittle” thing.
Especially when some xtian starts up with me about a vegetarian diet based on that Matthew quote about “it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person” as if I give two flying fucks what “the” bible says about morality or diet anyway…but I’ll ask them about why they eat pork and shellfish and they’ll use the “but that’s the OT” thing.
If they know a thing or two about old worn out chestnuts, they’ll claim they have some “new covenant” with their god and that things like that are only “rabbinical law”. But, whoops, his character is made to say that entire “jot and tittle” business! Uh-oh, sorry, no pork chops, guys. And no cheeseburgers! Hey, it’s YOUR holy text, not mine…
I’ve had two conversations like this where the xtian pulled out that dumb Matthew quote when they find out I’m vegetarian (IRL, I don’t really share this unless necessary in group settings, and I definitely don’t proselytize) - not sure how they started applying that to vegetarians, but it seems to be a thing? I don’t run in evangelical circles, but I imagine one of their thought leaders started with that…anyway, they didn’t like me pointing out the jot and tittle thing. Doesn’t really leave much wiggle room despite the claims of the “new covenant” and jacking your jaw about “rabbinical law”.
Just tell them to be Jews or Muslims if they don’t like the new testament
It’s quite a leap to assume that any of these people have actually read the bible.
It’s a Klan church
In like five more years, I’m sure there are going to be a bunch of churches that don’t even preach religion anymore, you just go there and hear the pastor parrot right wing news outlets. That whole “be nice to others” is inconvenient so they’ll just do away with it and still go to church to seem morally superior to everyone else.
It was already like that 20 years ago.
In my anecdotal experience, it’s been a lot longer than that. They didn’t have Faux until 30 years ago, but they had pamphlets and John Birch meetings and other ways to spread the crazy.
I mean it is a religion, and they are zealots. There have been schisms before over both more and less (purgatory / indulgences, ‘not my pope’) than “is empathy important to Christianity”.
“Religious” is not a synonym for “good” or “kind”. It’s about adherence to a belief system, which may conditionally include aspects of those attributes.
“Empathy is a sin”
Then line up the freshly sharpened guillotines and line up the traitorous degenerate Republicans right behind ‘em. They’re free to bring their bibles with ‘em.
“Taxation is literally worse than genocide!”
Start with the orange asshole in the white house.
Gotta love these followers of Jesus doing and saying exactly all the things Jesus said to never do… Not that it matters, all religions are imaginary, but leave it up to Christians to always posture about how pious they are while going 100% against their own rules and just act like giant narcissistic assholes.
I hate Christians
Christianity is a religion fundamentally about escaping consequences for your actions. Instead of having to face consequences, all you have to do is believe Jesus paid the consequences for you.
no wonder it spread like a plague
It’s the same way the conservatives, including and often most especially the True Conservatives ™, always blather on about things like freedom, rights, the Constitution, America, etc., as if they are the ones that own those things wholesale.
When they never meant any of that shit, ever. They don’t give a flying fuck about the Constitution any more than they do about “the” bible.
Fascism is a far-right, ultranationalist, and authoritarian political ideology that emerged in early 20th-century Europe, characterized by a totalitarian, one-party state, a charismatic leader, a fixation on national decline, and the suppression of individual rights and opposition groups. It combines elements of militarism, economic self-sufficiency, and mass mobilization, often through propaganda and violence, to achieve a vision of national purity and power.
He’s not wrong, per sé, if he means the OT. Some vile shit in there.
That was my thought. The bible is weirdly pro-genicide, too.
Let me guess, he’s not for public executions of criminals from the reich wing, but imagined “criminals” who are only committing “crimes” in his mind.
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Organized religion is social cancer
They cry “Jesus!” and “Lord!” So that all can hear them, but they long ago took the devil’s offer of all the cities of the world, if they only bow down and worship him. They have never had Jesus. His teachings died with him.
